The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-16
AFFAIRS OF THE RAILWAYS.


yincennes yesterday commenced laying new |
etesl rails west from the Belt road Some ten |
miles is now to be placed in the track.
On April i. w. f. Busenbark will be ap |
pointed assistant general passenger agent. and |
George Il. King assistant general ticket agent of |
the Michigan Central, with headquarters at CHI |
cago.
Edward Murphy, chief clerk in the Office of H. |
g. Diehl. general freight agent of the l., B. q
W. has obtained four mon tbs leave of absence, |
and gone to Marietta. Ga, for the benefit of his
health
In 1886 the Wabash gave out q, 776 trip passes.
of which Is. 600 are estimated to have been of |
the class now subject to legal prohibition. Es-
minated at $40 piece, these passes represent
value of $l50,0O0
Will King, chief clerk of F. P. Wade, district
passenger agent OF the Wabash west OF the
river. has resigned to accept position In the
office of General Passenger Agent Snow, or the
Wabash lines east of the river
G. w. Hayier, chief clerk in the Office Of a.
NJ Bronson general passenger agent OF the l.,
Il. Il w. has resigned to take a similar position
nad+r General Freight and Passenger Agent
Sweet, of the Indianapolis, Peru d Chicago road.
Notice is given by the Los Angeles & San
Gabriel Valley railroad that the duties of general
passenger and freight agent Will hereafter be
performed by the passenger and freight agent of
the California Southern road, H. B. Wilkins, of
San Diego.
The Chicago Santa Fe g. California road an
nounces that Is. 7. Lewis has been appointed
material agent of this company at Chicago. r.
T. Gano has been appointed store keeper of this
companv at Streator, Ill.,, and will enter upon
his duties April L.
Commissioners L. D. Richardson, acting as
arbitrator for the associated lines of Kentucky
Tennessee and Alabama, has just rendered de-
cisions in three special cases referred to him as
arbitrator, out in which he abides by the decis
lions previously made.
Cars again becoming scarce with some
roads, and dealers in grain who have been given
special rates are slowing up in their purchases.
lest the scarcity OF cars may make it impossible
for them to fill their contracts before the date
that all special rates expire
East-bound rates have not been so democrat
lied as at the present time in many months.
Some roads are cutting the rate 10 cents per
100 pounds, and the staid old Bee-line is carry
ing property at a twenty-cent per -one- hundred
pound rate to the seaboard
Four clerks in the Office of Fl. G. Diehl, gener-
al freight agent of the l.. B. & W., who had been
literally educated in his Office, have within the
last few weeks taken positions on other roads at
q handsome increase in salary namely: Rey-
nolds, Hanckell, Hazellrie and Davis.
Harry Norton, purchasing agent of the l., B.
g. W., has gone to Philadelphia to accept posi-
ton on the Philadelphia g. Reading road. H.
Gunnel. for many years past his chief clerk, and
very competent business man, it is stated will
DO the successor of Mr.. Norton on the J.. B. 81 W.
G. FL Prescott. OF Portland, Ore manager
of the Oregon Railway & Navigation Company,
has resigned. He teiegraphed his resignation to
President Smith several days ago, but it has not
been accepted and probably will not be. How
ever, Mr. Prescott will leave the service of the
com pany.
The agents and conductors on the Indanapo-
lis, Peru & Chicago road have received instruc-
lions to continue to use blanks and tickets of
the W., St l.. & P. until other ones are fur
nished and make reports to the proper officers
named in the circular issued by E. H. Scott,
general agent on the 9th of March.
The ticket scalpers becoming somewhat
uneasy over their business outlook, and will not
feel relieved until they better understand wheth-
er the commissioners, under the new law, take
views in opposition to those Of the general pas
senger agents of the trunk lines, who seem quite
determined to freeze the scalpers out
Frank l. Whitney. assistant general passenger
agent of the Michigan Central road. has re-
signed his present position and will. on April ],
accept the position of city passenger agent of
the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern at Chi
cago. with the understanding. it is said. that he
is to be advanced to higher place within a
short time.
Baltimore is worried" says the Chicago Her
ald because if New York gains control of its
big railroad the Mary land seaport will be only a
way station, There is only one town IN this
country which Gotham has not been able to treat
in this way, and that is Chicago. New York il
itself away station on the Chicago and Liverpoo
rail and water route"
Conductors report that the holders of passes
which will be void after the taking effect of thu
new law, still show determination to get al
the good out of them they we'll can. Said Of
the conductors on a train which run into thu
Union Depot yesterday, Il had eighty-fo pas
sengers on my train, and thirty-two OF then
were travelling on passes"
III. C. Barlow. new assistant general freigh
agent Of the Wisconsin Central road, will OF
April be promoted to the position of genera
freight agent made vacant by the resignation o
Mr. Malone. Mr.. Barlow successor will be B
II. Hand who has been assistant commissions
and secretary of the Ohio River Pool Associa
ton since 1t was organized.
The contractors who are to erect the immens
depot sheds will first build the half between
Illinois and Tennessee streets. Then the pres
ent depot will be abandoned and this portion o
the sheds used until the old depot is torn dow
and the remaining portion of the sheds-whic
will be 760 feet long and 1875 feet wide-is com
pleted. For two three months it will b
quite troublesome to handle the numerou
trains with the accommodations which can b
commanded.
The controversy as to English vs.. America,
locomotives is still raging and many preposter
GUS and absurd statements continue to appear
Meantime" says Engineering News, ''the WORT
continues to revolve on its axletree il
twenry-four hours, subject to the Constitution O
the United States p and the American Locomotive
is doing we'll could be expected and is abb
10 be about as usual and attend to its business
1t continues to reel off its 80. 900 miles NOR
per year as an average OF all engines on severe
great systems, doing it all with such econom
that the average cost Of transport in this countr
IS less by more than half that in any country i
the world.
With the taking effect Of the spring time
table on the Attn of April, the Decline peopl
propose to furnish train services which WI
catch on with the travelling public. On tina
date the Boston sleeping coach will be hauled o
train No. 10, which passes indianapolis, cas-
bound, in the morning. and train No. 4, i
the afternoon; through coach for New Yor
will take the place of the chair car which no.
runs between St Louis and Dayton. and trai
IN a will ha
INSTEAD of via Dayton. as under the presen
schedule. Additional local trains are to be pu